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Pehr Löfling (31 January 1729 – 22 February 1756) was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus . Biography. Löfling was born in Tolvfors Bruk, Gävle, Sweden. He studied at the University of Uppsala where he attended courses taught by Carl Linnaeus.
Jul 23, 2019 · Pehr Löfling (1729–56) was a Swedish botanist who studied with Carl Linnaeus in Uppsala and worked in Spain and South America. In the course of his short life he had to navigate a remarkable sequence of new social, cultural and intellectual contexts that confronted him with the challenges of diversity.
- Kenneth Nyberg
- 2018
Biography. Löfling was born in Tolvfors Bruk, Gävle, Sweden. He studied at the University of Uppsala where he attended courses taught by Carl Linnaeus. When the Spanish ambassador asked Linnaeus to select a botanist for service in the American colonies, the professor at once named Loefling.
Student, Uppsala University, signed in 11 February 1743. Löfling started with theology, but concentrated later on medicine and natural history. Bachelor of Philosophy and he defended a thesis for Linnaeus, 18 November 1749. Unusually, the thesis “de Gemmae arborum” was authored mainly by the respondent, i.e. Löfling, not by Linnaeus.
- 20 January 1729.
- Tolvfors, Valbo, Gästrikland, Sweden.
- 22 February 1756.
- San Antonio de Caroni, Guayana, Venezuela.
Dec 29, 2021 · Löfling was one of the so-called apostles of Carl Linnaeu s. At the request of the Spanish court, he first traveled to Spain in 1751 to study its natural habitats and contribute to the dissemination of the Linnaean method for describing and classifying living beings.
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Pehr Löfling, Spain and Venezuela (1751–1756) Pehr Löfling (1729–1756) was recommended by Linnaeus when the Spanish ambassador in Stockholm asked for help exploring Spanish flora. Löfling travelled to Madrid in 1751 where he stayed for approximately two years. He explored the flora and fauna and regularly sent plants to Linnaeus.
